Chu Tingchang hurriedly broke Lao Zhou away, but he also muttered a little in his heart, Lao Zhou Jiu was a ruffian in martial arts, and he understood what was going on with the national army more deeply than himself, and sometimes he was very sensitive to the smell of conspiracy.

However, Chu Tingchang thought about it again, and Lao Zhou may not know so thoroughly about the personnel struggles at the upper level. It's hateful that 419 is gone, otherwise you can help monitor the radio station in Chongqing to learn something you want to know.

In fact, Chu Tingchang did feel a lot of pressure, mainly from the suspicion of the upper echelons. Last month, he carried out a large-scale boycott in Calcutta, blasting Zheng Dongguo back, and Zhou Youfu lost his notoriety. As far as the performance is concerned, it can be said that it is a full score, but the discerning people in Chongqing should see what is going on, and if they figure it out, then this collective disobedience can also be regarded as a coup d'état, which is a big taboo. Fortunately, after that, Sun Liren's boycott movement was even more ugly, and he directly asked Stilwell to go to Chongqing to shoot the table, and drove away the generals who Jiang had forced over to take over, which could be regarded as covering himself. In order to mend the relationship, Stilwell allowed Chongqing to send some personnel appointments to deputy positions, which was due to the fact that a deputy division commander came from the 201st Division.

Nowadays, there are a large number of personnel of the Sanqing Regiment in the Youth Army, and Chu Tingchang cannot completely find out the information without mastering the information, and in the communications units of the 201st and 202nd Divisions, uncontrolled secret telegrams are leaked from time to time.

Before 419 left, he did not clarify this matter for Chu Tingchang, although it can be ruled out that it was a Japanese spy, but all parties monitored/competed, and the competition of this army has already appeared. So Chu did not appoint the commander of the 200th Division. This division is the basic unit from which he started, and it must be firmly grasped in his hands. He has been a deputy for many years, and he attaches great importance to the status of the number one.

He heard the news through some connections that the teacher Dai Anlan's operation in the United States was quite successful, and his life was saved, but a long part of his intestines was amputated, and the delay in sending him to the hospital led to kidney failure, and his current recovery is not good, and he needs long-term treatment in the United States, so he should not return to the battlefield. In other words, no one can empty themselves at present, as Lao Zhou said, unless he is calculated to leave the army. At present, the best helper to eliminate the control of Chongqing is Stilwell, the old man is disgusted with Chiang's various control and surveillance of the army, and helps him block a lot of things; Of course, another helper was Sun Liren, whose resistance to Chongqing's intervention and command was more tough and direct, which also made Chongqing somewhat restrained.

Now, he hopes that 419 will come back soon and give him a little help. With this in mind, he began to bury his head in planning the attack. The plan was very urgent, Xu Chong and the horse gun had already led their men and horses to reconnoitre, and the focus of the reconnaissance was not the enemy's deployment, but the passage suitable for mechanized marching, and he knew that the more unsuitable the area for tank action, the easier it would be to jump out of the enemy's expectations. The envisaged battle began with a feint attack on Ringanqiang, and the feint was fought by Sun Liren, while his troops, in the rear of the new First Army, quietly moved eastward, waiting for several Japanese divisions in the east to be transferred to the west. The superiority of the Chinese army in terms of strength is also apparent. Of course, he did not know to what extent this would contain the Japanese operations in Australia, and it was probably just Stilwell's wishful thinking. At present, it is only known that the Japanese base camp has no plan to support Burma, and they are using tens of thousands of prisoners of war and veteran workers to build a railway from Thailand to Burma, and at the other end of the railway is the 4th Division, the guard reserve of the Southern Army. In addition, after the start of the war, the Japanese Army's plan for 200 new divisions and regiments is being completed, and a large number of new divisions and mixed brigades will soon be crammed into various battlefields. This was the second reason why he did not want to drag out the campaign. The third reason was that he knew the progress of the British, and in any case, he had to get ahead of them. After the war, it was necessary to allow a large number of Chinese forces to return to northern Burma.

Inside a small building in Port Moresby, Makino reads a report on the test launch of the acoustic self-guide* brought by the Courier. A 16% hit rate shows that this * is not yet effective in real combat.

The error in judging the location of the target through the simple listening device is too large, and it is okay at a long distance, and the closer you get to the target, the more difficult it is to find the accurate position from the chaotic oscilloscope like a waterfall. In addition, there is the interference of its own power sound source, and the speed must be reduced to 30 knots in order to make the transducer play some efficiency, and these problems can only be solved by improving the quality of the device. The * of the person in the circuit does not have the use value, and the self-guided * is of course even farther, he has completed the drawings, but he can't get qualified parts, and the drawings are useless.

* After the news of blowing up his own people, he was surprisingly calm, although it was unexpected, but he knew who was the master. They killed Asano and went back to trying to get rid of themselves in this way. The Tokyo base camp, of course, wanted to investigate the matter, and the military command stubbornly and stupidly used the radio to issue an order to Yamamoto to escort himself to the mainland, and this order would obviously be monitored by the enemy in the shadows, although Commander Yamamoto suppressed this order, and his name did not appear in the order, but the enemy was bound to analyze from the telegram that he was still alive and knew his location, and was lured here. Now he is a little restless, whether to stay on land, or hide at sea, where is safer?

Makino decided to meet with Yamamoto immediately, first to talk about his suggestions for the upcoming battle, and then to mention his idea of hiding on one of the combined fleet's light warships. Hiding at sea is the best way to save his life after his analysis. He called Yamamoto's headquarters, and Yamamoto immediately said that he would send someone to pick him up and talk to him secretly on the Yamato.

The new battle is about to begin, and 300,000 elite Japanese troops have been assembled in the barren mountains of New Guinea, ready to cross the Torres Strait and launch a decisive attack. Of course, landing in Australia is the business of the army, but attacking it is what Yamamoto wants most, and he needs to lure the US Pacific Fleet to attack and solve it once and for all.

The intention and determination of this naval battle originated from Asano's report on the Battle of Midway, which Yamamoto had read the most in the last four months. From the factors that led to the defeat summarized by later generations, he found that the mistake in the use of troops was that he neglected the principle of concentrating the use of troops. Yamamoto is glad that the fiasco that shook the country like this did not happen.

This time he decided to sacrifice the speed of the mobile forces and concentrate nine aircraft carriers to set up a huge encirclement. In addition, he has a new trump card, and he is very satisfied with the results of the Chitose. Although it was the bomber that ultimately sank Tennessee, the potential value of this weapon was already clear.

A few hours later, Makino arrived at the conference room on the Yamato. Yamamoto was standing in front of a huge blackboard with a determined smile on his face, covered with a cloth. Apparently there was some battle plan to show him.

"*I'm very sorry that you were implicated in the wounding of His Excellency Admiral Nagano." Makino apologized first.

"It's a small thing, soldiers are going to die, sometimes at sea, sometimes on the beach. Nagano should have such an awareness," Yamamoto said indifferently, "Look at our new battle plan with the army." ”

Yamamoto said as he uncovered the cloth on the blackboard. Not surprisingly, on the blackboard was a map of the Torres Strait, with arrows drawn horizontally and vertically, representing the direction of the Japanese Army's attack.

"The Army, and our land-based aviation, will concentrate 1,600 aircraft to attack these areas and open a passage for the troops to land, and the campaign will be commanded by General Yamashita, and I have heard that the Australians are most afraid of the mountain, and our warships will continue to carry out artillery bombardment to cover the Army."

"I don't know much about military affairs, but attacking a place like Cape York is too obvious for the enemy to know the general plan and prepare for defense without guessing. If it is attacked, the army will inevitably kill a lot of people. ”

"That's also something that can't be helped, the Japanese soldiers are ready to die for the country. Still, I know that this is a great opportunity for us to destroy the Pacific Fleet, because the Americans cannot afford to lose Australia with serious consequences, and they will definitely do it with all their might. I judge that they will bring reinforcements from the direction of New Zealand or Fiji, and their fleet will inevitably appear near this route. ”

Yamamoto said and pointed to the area outlined by the red line on the map, apparently the battle zone he expected.

"Commander, I don't think the choice of battlefield is ideal, because it will be under the attack of Allied planes in the Solomon Islands or the Australian mainland."

"This time, my fleet is concentrated with five hundred and fifty aircraft, which can cope with all the challenges and will not repeat the mistakes of the past. Especially since I have your secret weapon. ”

Yamamoto gritted his teeth when he spoke of repeating the mistakes of the past, as if he had actually experienced the Midway fiasco.

"Commander, although I am not as proficient in the history of war as Asano-kun, as far as I know, naval battles between aircraft carriers are usually very far away and do not see each other. At the moment, the advantage of Sakura * is still only relative to naval guns. The battlefield I envisioned was only in some narrow waterways. It will take time to truly have the ability to automatically find targets across the curvature of the earth. ”

"I know this, so I'm going to organize the Chitose and Chiyoda, together with the fast ten cruisers and destroyers, into a guerrilla force to attack here." He said pointing to a place, on the edge of the red* field.

"Brisbane?"

"Yes, that's it, the main port that receives aid from the U.S. military. If the enemy fleet does not appear, it is equivalent to them giving up on aiding Australia. ”

"And if they show up?"

"Then, we'll fight them."

Makino felt that he couldn't make any suggestions, although Yamamoto's plan still looked desperate and risky, but now that he was tied to the warships of these adventurous soldiers, he could only gamble.

"I just think we have to take into account that the enemy submarine is going to make trouble."

"Makino-kun, at present, they don't have enough future weapons to threaten our big fleet, otherwise they wouldn't have made so many crooked moves. They can rely on those weapons that automatically look for targets and destroy our fleet, don't you say? ”

"That said, we should be prepared to take the loss."